Wang Qi held onto the rope along the wall and walked into the cave.
According to the Celestial Favored Clan's previous records, this rope carried great significance.
The cave within had originally been a natural labyrinth, its terrain shifting at any moment. With this rope, at least one could ensure a way back out.
—Incidentally, this was precisely the most baffling part.
The rope's length had originally been fixed. The Ant Clan had woven it using the Nan Clan's knot language; every time they fed in another stretch, they wove another section. It had taken several years to achieve its current length.
Logically, this section of rope did not belong to this region, so its length ought to have remained unchanged.
But this was where things became strange. No matter how the maze's interior changed, the hanging rope still marked out a path.
And its length changed along with that path.
This was profoundly unscientific.
But regardless, after this rope appeared, far fewer individuals became lost in the depths of the labyrinth.
Not only that, cases of drastic changes in temperament had also become far less common.
No one knew why. But all subsequent exploration had used this rope as its benchmark.
Maps were completely useless here. Only this single rope had any value.
Wang Qi split off a thread of attention, reading while thinking and making notes in the book. Though the Bourbaki school and his Foundation Establishment School had already developed obvious differences, his ideas had ultimately originated with Bourbaki. Reading this book could also help him think further.
Wang Qi made sure he was constantly thinking about mathematics.
If his mathematical thoughts became discontinuous, or if anything else happened, it would mean he might have encountered a force involving "time" and "causality."
But this was merely doing